The Illusion of Evidence: How Photographic Anomalies Fool Ghost Hunters

Anyone with any remote interest in the anomalous research field or more particularly in either ghost hunting or paranormal investigations has spent time on the internet visiting social media, various websites, or reddit searching for pictures of what is reported to be activity of a paranormal nature. The truth is that well over 99% of the material that you find has an easily explainable natural cause to what is being perceived as paranormal. Today we will discuss photographic anomalies that are often misperceived as paranormal activity.

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Posted on November 17, 2022 in Investigation Techniques by Eric Extreme
Tags: ghost hunter, ghost hunting, Observer Expectancy Effect, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, photography

The Paranormal Investigator’s Quest: A Search for Knowledge and Truth

In a recent post I discussed the dos and do nots for new investigators. During that post I mentioned about getting educated in as many subjects as possible. This post will briefly define some of those subjects that you may or may not hear about on television shows, and those that you most likely will not hear about on the television shows. It is beneficial for serious investigators to be familiar with these topics.

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Posted on October 25, 2021 in Equipment,Human Behavior,Investigation Techniques,Miscellaneous,Parapsychology,Theories by Eric Extreme
Tags: afterimage, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, apophenia, astral projection, auto-kinetic effect, autokinesis, availability cascade, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, Barnum Effect, binaural beats, blind spot, Butterfly Effect, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, chronostasis, claustrophobia, cleansing, clustering illusion, construction, cryptomensia, dark adaption, déjà vu, dermo-optical perception, Doorway Effect, dopamine, Dunning-Kruger Effect, electromagnetic radiation, equipment, evp class system, gas, gravity, Hutchinson Effect, hypnagogic halluciantions, hypnopompic halluciations, ideomotor, Infinite Monkey Theorem, infrasound, instrumental transcommunication, isochronic tones, jamais vu, Jürgenson Frequency, kinesis, lucid dreaming, Mandela Effect, matrixing, meteorology, misophonia, musical ear syndrome, New House Effect, Observer Expectancy Effect, palinopsia, paranormal entities, parapsychology, parasomnia, pareidolia, peripheral drift illusion, photography, piezoelectricity, postdiction, power of suggestion, psychometry, quantum entanglement, Schumann Resonances, scopaesthesia, scrying, Semmelweis Reflex, Singapore Theory, sixth sense, sleep deprivation, sleep paralysis, stone tape theory, synchronicity, synesthesia, tachypsychia, Thatcher Effect, The Misinformation Effect, thought transference, tinnitus, types of haunts, ultrasound